The birth of mountain biking documentary

[thom04]

https://theradavist.com/camera-corner-wende-cragg-film-book-announcement/
Thought this looked interesting

Anyone watched anything similar they'd recommend?

 

[PhillB]

Looking forward to this film! Wende Cragg is a bit of a legend

 

[thom04]

Looking forward to this film! Wende Cragg is a bit of a legend

Will be a good one I think. Ive just been looking through her archive at the marin museum & there's some really interesting stuff

https://mmbhof.org/mtn-bike-hall-of-fame/history/cragg_galleries/miscellaneous/

 

[Totoro]

Looks good, like when I first discovered Klunkerz

 

[Supratada]

I remember her in Butterflys.

 

[MattiThundrrr]

I knew she was legit, I knew she was hardcore, the Breezer 1 mountain top image is enough to know she was the real deal...
But Repack, on a klunker, in hippie sandals?!!

Hardcore, freakin hardcore

 

[thom04]

for anyone interested:

planning on watching tonight

 

[PanoIgano]

Watched this last night.

Very nice production and really the documentary that sums up very nicely the early days of MTB.

There was another very good documentary on the subject with Klunking on the title that can't remember now and it's equally good!

 

[MattiThundrrr]

There was another very good documentary on the subject with Klunking on the title that can't remember now and it's equally good!

Was it Klunkers, by Billy Savage?
https://www.mtbr.com/threads/klunker-documentary.630034/

Fantastic quotes from Charlie Kelly in the thread too. Really highlights how important the guys who rode klunkers were to the development of the commercial mountain bike

"In 1980 Specialized bought four Ritchey/MountainBikes. These were the basis for the design of the first Stumpjumper. which used the identical component group. The Stumpjumper was actually the second knock-off to hit the market. The Univega Alpine Sport, "designed" by another Ritchey owner, James McLean, who is also shown in the film, beat the Stumpjumper onto the market by a couple of weeks.

Every mountain bike built before 1985 was designed directly off the bikes we sold. In 1980 there was nothing on the market like it. By 1984 every mountain bike on the market looked very much like it and used the component group that had evolved out ot the collection of disparate parts we used"

 

[Scott-S]

for anyone interested:

planning on watching tonight

Thanks for that, It was pretty incredible to watch and to see those old pics from the repack was something else